Mark Twain

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
- Mark Twain's Notebook

After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.
- Adam's Diary

Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes--none knows whence--and cannot explain itself.
- Eve's Diary

Love is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast.
- "The Memorable Assassination"

The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression from his sense that no stranger is going to see what he is writing.
- Mark Twain's Autobiography, 1959 preface

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
- Notebook, 1898

Our Sonnet

A sweet poem

Sweet Lady, song of my heart,
Hold my hand, as this journey we start.
Lift me up in spirit of joy and gladness;
And shield my soul from heartbreak and sadness.
Steadfast, honest and true;
Your partner is here and will forever love you.

It is my prayer that I will always be;
The one who brings you joy and sets your spirit free.
With my love I’ll cover you and warm your soul with mine;
Give you pleasures – like none you will find.
Your Sweet Lady, song of your heart;
Will love you forever, together or apart.

So hear me Sweet Lady, and know in your soul;
That there is no better future than with you to grow old.
Endless caresses, touches and kisses;
Our passion a banner for our love’s true existence.
My hand I extend and my honor I offer;
For being with you my love, there is no greater pleasure.

Your hand I accept, and all your love as well;
My heart sings so loudly, all can tell
I am loved and in love with the man made for me
Hold my hand; let us walk through this life
Being what we were meant to be
Together.

               - Carol Stecher and
                   Jim Foreman

Let our scars fall in LOVE...

We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us.
But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong.

Why is this?

Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way.
But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. And it isn’t until you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problems—the ones that make you truly who you are—that we’re ready to find a lifelong mate.

Only then do you finally know what you’re looking for.
You’re looking for the wrong person. But not just any wrong person: the right wrong person—someone you lovingly gaze upon and think, “This is the problem I want to have.”

I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.

Let our scars fall in love...

                          .             Andrew Boyd

Classical Tennyson

Five fantastic quotes by
           Alfred Tennyson

1. Who is wise in love, love most,    
    say least.

2. Better not be at all than not to
    be noble.

3. Such a one do I remember,
    whom to look at was love.

4. Its better to have loved and
    lost than never to have to love
    at all.

5. Love is the only gold.
    

Happy Valentine's Day

Authors, poets and playwrights have been trying to capture love in words for thousands of years. Their work speaks to the enduring power of love across the ages of human history.

Check out this collection of quotes about love from some of the world’s most famous personalities :

1. Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle

2. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
- Lao Tzu

3. My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

4. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

5. Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
- Henry Ward Beecher

6. Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
- Anais Nin

7. Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

8. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
-Helen Keller

9. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love.
- Leo Tolstoy

10. I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way than this: where I does not exist nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.
- Pablo Neruda, “Love Sonnet XVII”

I hate Love...

Have you ever been in love?

Horrible isn't it?

It makes you so vulnerable.
It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.
You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...
You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it.
They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore.
Love takes hostages.
It gets inside you.
It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart.

It hurts...
Not just in the imagination.
Not just in the mind.
It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain.

I hate love.

                                          Neil Gaiman

Moving sea between the shores of your souls

“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?
And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see in truth that you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”
But
let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

      
                                         Kahlil Gibran

Greek philosophy

Quotes  by the Greek philosopher
                  SOCRATES

**He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

**By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

**Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us

**Wisdom begins in wonder

**Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

**I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Happy birthday Bob Marley

Some of the best quotes by
Bob Marley

**I no have education. I have  inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

**If something can corrupt you,     you're corrupted already.

**In this bright future you can't forget your past.

**One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

**God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can